On Tuesday, Nogo's maths group we used protractors and compasses to draw a flower. I found it kind of confusing at the start, but Nogo showed me how to do it and it made sense eventually. It was cool to see how a pattern could be made by just connecting some points we had drawn. After we could colour it in any way we liked.
This is how mine turned out:
For literacy this week, we had to choose 2 moments in New Zealand history that happened in November.
I chose the Ballantynes fire and the Mount Erebus plane crash. Here are the infographics I made on Canva:
Today in maths we went out into the car park and, using ratios we counted the number of cars, SUVs, trucks, and other vehicles. We found that the ratios were:
27:10:2:1
We may have got the number a little off because we didn't really understand the difference between cars and SUVs.
We also had to find out the ratio of white cars to red cars. The answer was:
11:6
Te Reo Māori
Ko wai to ingoa? What is your name?
No hea koe? Where are you from?
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Te Whanganui-a-tara Wellington
Tāmaki makaurau Auckland
Rāhina Rātu Rāapa Rāpare Rāmere Rāhoroi Rātapu
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Rongomatane papatuanuku haumai tikitiki tane mahuta tawhirimatea tangaroa
Tahi rua toru wha rima ono whitu waru iwa tekau tekau ma tahi…….. Tekau ma rua……… tekau ma wha……….. Tekau ma rima
Tēnā koutou
Ko Skye toku ingoa
No Ōtautahi ahau
Tekau ma rua oku tau
Kei te haere au ki te kura o Rāwhiti
Haere rā
The problem we are trying to solve is that traditional space suits are too heavy for anyone to live forever in space. We have designed them to fit the needs of someone living on the planet Titan. The suits need to be temperature controlled so that they keep you warm when you are cold, and cold when you are too hot. The suits also need to be light and flexible enough to move around in, after all, you are going to be spending the rest of your life in them. We have added pockets to keep equipment in, protective boots, metal shoulder plates, sturdy bulletproof corset, as well as a lighter version of the regular space helmet.
Here is a draft of the design:
We are also going to dehydrate different foods and see how much of a difference they are in weight with and without water.
Today I did a 2 point task for my novel study: a haiku poem. If you don’t know what a haiku poem is, it is a poem made up of 3 lines, the first line has 5 syllables, the second has 7, and the third has 5 again.
My poem is about the main events of the story.
Look Into My Eyes
Haiku Poem
Land the Spectrum job
Open your eyes to the code
Save the jade Buddha
Skye Young
24/8/21
Ruby Redfort - Look Into My Eyes
By Lauren Child
Knowledge:
What other books has the author written?
Lauren Child is a well-known children’s author, who has written 51 books in total. In this number, there are three series: Charlie And Lola (4 books), Clarice Bean (9 books), and, of course, Ruby Redfort (7 books). As well as many stand-alone books. Along with these, she has also created adaptations of popular fairy tales The Princess And The Pea, Goldilocks And The Three Bears, and Pippi Longstocking. Australian photographer Polly Borland helped Lauren with The Princess And The Pea as well as Goldilocks And The Three Bears, adding a photographic and 3D element to the books.
Yesterday in science, we looked at the size and distance of the planets in our solar system.
First of all, we each got a long strip of paper and some different sized stickers, which we used to create a diagram of sorts that showed how far each planet was away from the other. This was a little bit challenging because Sharon only told us
This week in Nogo's maths group we have been looking at angles and how to classify them.
At first I didn't really understand, because we were going through them really fast, but eventually I understood how to draw the different types and how to label them.
Below is a photo of the work we did yesterday. Nogo wrote a list of angles we had to draw, label, classify and do our best to estimate the degree they were. Apart from the right, revolution, and straight line angles, all the others were a complete guess. Here's a photo of the workings:
Yesterday, after we had done all the tasks in our books, Nogo sent us a link for a game website where we had to read a protractor and type in the degree we thought the alien laser lined up with. If you read the protractor correctly then there would be a loud bang. It's a bit hard to explain but here's a screenshot of the game:
